Gekx-perience - the ultimate geek experience.

So Im workin on my laptop one fine day and I see the light on the power indicator go into the battery mode, then to the adaptor mode and it keep switching every few seconds. Obviously I get pissed off and hold the power thingie tighter against my laptop socket and its on proper power. This situation gets worse by the day and eventually everyday I have to find a position in which the thing will remain connected and hold it there. I move a lill bit and there I loose like a half damn hour....

I thought may be the wire is twitched or something and what I need is a new adaptor and stuff. So I get onto ebay and buy one. Same problem; 50 bucks gone. So Im using the new one and I leave the machine on and take off for classes and everything. I think two or three days later I needed to remove the adaptor and use it on the battery for a while.

Now some geeks reading this may know that AMD's get much hotter than Intel processors - And I have an AMD processor. What happened was that the new adaptor, apparently of not that great quality; the metal on it kinda melts or something and it fuses into my laptop power socket. OMG, I was so pissed off. Being really busy that I was, I never bothered to get it repaired or anything. Let it go on as it was going.... Until... One day.... The adaptor died....

So now theres no way to use my laptop. I turn it on, and start backing up my important stuff. As luck has it with me, always, the battery died before I could get anything, which killed the connection and for some reason everything that was being cached on the server too was lost. So I saved nothing.

Anyhow, Im running store to store, trying to see if anything can be done. Most people said nothing, except sending it back to the company, and in either case it would probably cost me like 400 to 800 bucks. There's no way I was spending that much, so I let it pass. One day after a crazy party night, I sat to work with it.. may be still a lill buzzed from the previous night.. or what I don't know.. but I decided to open it and see..

I figured, Iv assembled countless machines, I can do it. I start off by borrowing the smallest of the tookits I could find, and collected everything sat in an empty room with beige carpet, so I can see the silver or black screws and started to work on it. Several, several hours later, I got it done. Im not going to sit and write about what exactly happened. But Oh My God, it was so amazing. So satisfying. The feeling I got, just drove me crazyeeeeee..

Like Monica says in Friends, when she sees a really organized and clean lady; one of Pheobe's friend who they are visiting for adoption advice; that seeing her organization skills and stuff, she almost had a tiny orgasm. OMG, I felt sooo like that.. much more actually.. Amm... one sec.. not the orgasm part.. I mean I felt really satisfied.. like.. a lot more.. I mean... Ok.. I hope get the picture... I mean I hope u get the right picture...

- Some more halloween pix.. My last sem @ ISU.. Gonna miss these days...

Whats Technical About English ?

I never really understood why so many people had to spend time studying a language. I always thought that all you need to study should be enough to be able to read, write or communicate in it. I did figure out some reasons for people to study a little more in english and stuff, but what really irritates me is how do people spend their lives studying such stuff. I definitely thing, engineering, medicine, and stuff like that is something substantial to study. You can spend your life doing it. Something that you can actually USE... well... for useful purposes...

Anyhow, for some damn reason we are made to take a technical english class. A "Technical"-English class ? What the heck. Cmon. I thought, okay.. may be there is something about such classes, you know? But I was wrong. And I gladly admit it.
There really is nothing technical about english. Unless describe a toilet seat is technical? Or perhaps, playing with TINKER TOYS is ?!!!! I mean CMONNN, I was like the only graduating senior on campus with a huge can of Tinker Toys!

We are made to do the most ridiculous things in that class. It absolutely doesn't make sense, and my professor, she won't let me skip one extra class... just one extra class.. that too because I want to travel for interviews.. I mean c'mon.. I am so pissed off right now.. that.. I have no words to describe how pissed off I am...

- What posers we are ! Lol ! Halloween Party Pix...

Humor for computer geeks!

So what if you are a computer geek. You can have a sense of humor too. As you walk into a computer engineering building you see a notice, No smoking outside this door.

Ah, ah, ah, now... Don't be mean... Geeks have their jokes too.. Try to get the joke here.. Its like, you are already outside the door.. seee seee.. you are already outside the door and you are not supposed to smoke outside the door... so.. you are not supposed to smoke, on the outside of the outside... seee seee ... essentially.. you are not supposed to smoke inside the building.

Thats something man. I mean, that, right there IS something.. Its a geeks humor.. something that gives him a smile on his face after several dozen hours of glaring at a screen or coding a mini circiuit board. No no, I mean a really mini board.

Anyhow, any geeks out there who want another small programmer thingie... here is a programmer's prayer, from jokesaround :

Our program,
Who art in memory,
"Hello" be thy name.

Thy spreadsheets be formatted,
thy code be downloaded,
from disk
as it will be in memory.

Give us on screen
our data spreads,
and forgive us our typos,
as we forgive those who ask that we document.

Lead us not into frustration,
but deliver us from glitches.

For thine is the algorithm,
the application,
and the solution,
looping forever and ever.

Return.

- Dunno Y This Pic For A Geeky Article...

Isn't that enough ?

Trying too hard. Ever heard of that? What really is the tradeoff between, try try till you succeed and trying too hard ? I just can not believe that things happen like this sometimes.

What do you do when people just don't seem to get it ? I mean you are telling someone that listen this is what I mean, as clear as possible, and they get the exact opposite meaning. What do you do when you are trying really really hard in a class or to get a job or something, and apparently your own efforts are blocking your way to success ?

You know whats worse ?
When you tell someone, something. They get the opposite meaning. AND, you know you can't blame them, AND, then you feel bad about the whole thing, and hey not to mention that there really is no reason for all of this. ( No reason for the whole thing, thats what hurts, you know what I mean ? )

You know my advise guys... Just say sorry dude... and shut up.. See.. Here shut up is really important.. because if you do not shut up then you are gonna get screwed over.. you see... after you shut up, its her turn to yell scream at you, kill you, whatever. Thats just the way these things work.

And no Jon, saying sorry isn't just one of the ways with women. It is THE only way. Good Luck buddy.... on the project, I mean....

- Just getting there.. One of the summer hiking pics.. Bear Mountain Pk..

OMG Parik, You Turned Into A Woman!

What can be a lill more irritating than a normal woman ?
Hmm... A woman-computer-engineer !!!
Ok, now I don't mean like really irritating or something.. I mean... well.... ammmm... Anyhow, so we are at this birthday party, where we don't know anyone. Some stupid girl is really irritating us. Gets really drunk and is trying to make us, "mix" with the crowd. We were just pissed at her. I mean, we generally are totally party kinds, but with this woman, Oh my God, she was driving us crazy. I mean she's like, you look familiar, what do you do ? Im like, Computer Engineering, shes like, haha, another nerd, we are all nerds here, or something of that sort, and I was like.... well.... WHATEVER.

Finally I and Yesu, along with Dhawal, Joe, Jarves and others hit the bars and Yesu is pretty gone by now. He gets us some beer. Now I'm not a beer person at all, I generally prefer harder drinks and shots. But, anyhow, so we are standing is sort of a circle, I'm on Yesu's right hand side. I wait for a while, and finally I take off to go keep my drink somwhere. But just as I move away, a girl comes in my place, and immidiately thereafter Yesu turns and looks at her, and he totally freaks out; OMG Parik, You Turned Into A Woman!!!

Lol, Not to mention that when this other girl came upto him, at the party like really drunk, he calls her a bitch and drives her away, she comes back again at the bars and hes like, "There's the bitch again!"... oh ya.. and he.. well.. almost.. picked a fight with this huge guy, coz he was wearing a Univ of Iowa shirt when he is at a bar in Iowa State Univ and they have just lost the game. Aah, aah, one of the several things we do.

I wonder, what kinda crap I do when I get too drunk. LoL. Now that I graduate this semester, I sure am gonna miss these days! Ah, well.....

- Me & Yesu, one of the nights.. at Element..

We Don't Do Our Research In The Mirror!

So, we are at this mall in des moines and we were checking out this new amazing digital photo frame. Most certainly I wanna buy it. Nice music and stuff too. Soon, me and Yesu are busy discussing the Specifications on certain cameras, PDAs, etc.. Just then we see the girls shop for some stuff and are checking out other stuff.. which obviously we find ridiculous.. I mean we landed up in a store.. which had like millions of purses.. we were on the steps coming down.. and as far as our eyes could seee we saw that.. there were only purses.. of all the weirdest shapes and sizes and fur and different materials, and most importantly different name tags, and these were spread for as far as possilble..

We just started wondering.. why the heck are these here, this way ? I mean, the specs on all of them are the same. They do the same thing. Provide the same functionality. We just couldn't seem to understand the idea of paying a bomb on such stuff.

It's like we were still thinking about spending 150$ on this digital frame thing. We decided to research stuff online, the battery life, the compatibility, the warranty, the ports on it and the itnerface and measure its worth, check out the CNET reviews and stuff, and then we would go for it. On the other hand, the ladies stare in the mirror, talkin something, some weird stuff amongst themselves, oh yeah, they giggle like really loud, and swoossh, the card is swipped and some really high ridiculous amount is gone... on... well... nothing.. I mean its something which they have 100's of, I mean all of them do the same thing, no new features, no additional stuff, nothing.. Oh ya, not to mention.. most of them aren't even used.. And.. if they aren't purses.. (i.e. they are shoes... and they are really expensive... no no.. i mean.. REALLY expensive.. then they hurt).

Anyhow, let me get over this thing, well.... let me try to get over this thing... while you guys reading this, gotta tell me what to do.. No no nooo.. not about purses or shoes... about my Goatee.. Some people feel I should remove it.. some love it.. Im just confused.. was considering a different look for a while.. so you guys gotta gimme a nice suggestion, each.. as a comment response to this blog... and do mention your name !!

- I'v a smiling version of this pic too, but I guess the focus is on me goatee..

Why does it have to happen to me?

I'm back guys. Sorry I haven't written in a long time. But WOW, I got so many requests to start writing again and more so, so many enquiries as to why have I stopped writing that, I just dint know what to do. Im so happy my friends read what I write !

Anyhow, basically, this entry will be mostly about my come back. After my London trip, I got really busy, doing the regular stuff, then attending classes.. yeah.. this time I am attending and studying real hard tooo.. Iv promised someone that I will be trying to get a good grade. It may not be the one that was demanded but I did commit to try real hard. Plus then, doing a job search, and all the other stuff, just had no time to come on or chat or write.

This time I have MS level courses, and even one of the hardest classes ever. It is an Algorithms class for which no one ever gets a good grade, and apparently the text hasnt been changed in years and years, and the edition too has remained the same since like the past two decades. No one knows crap, and its really weird and confusions, but even worse, its too abstract and barely has any practicality, in the sense that we don't really learn to apply anything. And you know, engineers aren't used to that kinda stuff.

So, Im studying real hard, have an A in every single class that I'm taking, and this course, the weird one, I wanted an A too, so decided to study kick ass for it. Was totally into my books and stuff for 5 straight days, did like the last 12 semesters' exams, and was totally determined to get a perfect score.. well I hoped if I aimed high.. I'd atleast get a decent score.

Generally this course starts out with an absolute grading scale of 90% being an A but by mid semester it goes down to 24% being the average, so then everything is scaled down. Also, more than half the people drop the class way before the mid term. The professors for the last several years always give you 20 bonus points to solve in each exam, just so they can push up the average. They also give you over 2 hours to solve an exam meant for 50 minutes. In short, its a crazy ass class, but guess what...

Despite the studies and stuff, I get a D !!! Hahahaa.. And I cant even drop this class... Why ??
Coz he decides to change the pattern, the exam, everything, and he even added a chapter for 20% of the syllabus, which he taught the day before the exam !! And guess what I was doing ? Sloggin my ass out in the library. Why me God, Why me ???????

- Me in my closet.. in my new club wear shirt...